This is a developing story.
Multiple Iranian missiles fell in and around Tel Aviv on Friday night and Saturday morning amid multiple barrage responding to Israel’s early-morning attack on Iran’s nuclear program.
Hundreds of missiles were sent toward Israel, officials said, and several appeared to strike despite the country’s air defense systems. Interceptors also generated explosions near the ground as they fired to shoot missiles out of the sky. Sirens sounded across the entire country.
Dozens of people were injured in the first round of missiles, some severely. Videos showing the impacts circulated on social media but many were deleted quickly amid exhortations by Israeli leaders to shield location data that could aid in the Iranian attack.
The impacts came as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave a televised address. “Today, we must give a strong response to the evil, despicable, terrorist Zionist identity,” he tweeted simultaneously. “God willing, we will respond with strength, and will show no mercy to them.”
Israeli authorities had warned that it was possible that some missiles and drones could evade the country’s air defense systems, which have largely deflected missiles sent on earlier occasions by Iran and more recently and regularly by Iran’s proxies in the Middle East.
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